A 2-1 Monday ruling by a federal judicial panel approved President Donald Trump’s contentious order to send National Guard troops to “war-ravaged” Portland — and may ease the White House’s efforts to do the same in San Francisco, experts said.

The move from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals comes as Trump has repeatedly talked of sending the National Guard to San Francisco.

Legal experts say today’s ruling is highly tailored to Portland. But the rationale used by two Trump-appointed judges to greenlight federal military intervention in the Pacific Northwest could potentially apply to any city under the aegis of the Ninth Circuit , which covers the west coast.

City officials already have a panoply of worries regarding federal intervention — of which National Guard deployment is arg

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